Lachlan Kermode
Graduate Student
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLachlan Kermode is a machine learning and systems engineer with a decade of experience building software at the hardware-software boundary, specializing in streaming engines and vector databases implemented in Rust. Currently a Brown University graduate student pursuing distributed systems research alongside a PhD in Modern Culture and Media, he blends rigorous systems engineering with theoretical perspectives on computing. His background spans full-stack and DevOps work—React, Vue, Python, Go, Ansible, and Terraform—plus production distributed systems in Node, Java, and Flink. He has applied ML in practice and research, co-authoring a NeurIPS paper on synthetic data, and has shaped live platforms through CI/CD and infrastructure work. Based in Providence, RI, Lachlan combines hands-on engineering with scholarly inquiry, making him adept at translating cutting-edge research into deployable systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Auckland Grammar SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Modern Culture and Media, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Modern Culture and Media at Brown UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Princeton University
English, Italian, Latin
Github Skills (200)
skaffold10
terraform10
gcp10
google-cloud10
excel10
istio10
openstreetmap10
javascript10
kustomize10
grpc10
classification10
matching10
android10
docker10
react10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
forensic-architecture/scripts
May 2019 - Dec 2020
various for image, video, sound, and 3D mesh
Contributions:1 review, 45 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 7 months
meshsound3d-meshvideo
breezykermo/nixos
May 2024 - Mar 2025
NixOS config
Contributions:5 PRs, 168 pushes, 6 branches in 9 months
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